The ARM-equipped T-Board houses the Atmel ATSAMD21E18A microcontroller, an ARM Cortex-M0+. If you aren’t familiar with the ATSAMD21E18A, take a quick look over these specifications:

• 8/16/32-bit Timer/Counter
• 3 24-bit Timer/Counters
• 32-bit RTC with clock/calendar functions
• USB 2.0 interface (host and device functionality)
• 4 Serial interfaces (USART, I2C, SPI, LIN)
• 12-bit DAC with 20 channels (differential and single-ended input; oversampling support in hardware)
• 10-bit DAC
• Inter-IC Sound (I2S) Interface
• 2 Analog Comparators
• 16 External Interrupts
• 26 GPIO pins
• Peripheral Touch Controller: 10 x 6 lines
• Maximum frequency: 48 MHz
• 1.62 V to 3.63 V supply

That’s quite a handful of features compared to ye olde 8-bit micro. We felt that this microcontroller would be the perfect one to add to the T-Board platform: in addition to the specifications we’ve listed above, the pin count is manageable for a breadboard-based board; it has a very decent 256 KB of flash memory and 32 KB of SRAM; has USB support; and comes in at a reasonable price point.



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Learn more about Elektor’s ARM’ed T-Board! Download the editorial article for free as a PDF file in the 'Attachment' section below. And don’t forget to benefit from a special, limited time offer: if you purchase the brand new ARM’ed T-Board before Tuesday October 20, 2015 you grab a 50% discount off the second T-Board. There are seven other T-Boards to choose from.

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